A line from G.K. Chesterton, which I have for years considered a personal motto, always seemed to me an apt description of Breitbart’s life: “We are to regard existence as a raid or great adventure; it is to be judged, therefore, not by what calamities it encounters, but by what flag it follows and what high town it assaults.”

Andrew loved the fight because he loved his country. And so he charged up that hill, again and again, day after day, to smash the icons of the left. He was larger than life, and we will all miss him dearly.

RIP Andrew Breitbart: warrior, innovator, patriot.

Matt Drudge:

DEAR READER: In the first decade of the DRUDGEREPORT Andrew Breitbart was a constant source of energy, passion and commitment. We shared a love of headlines, a love of the news, an excitement about what’s happening. I don’t think there was a single day during that time when we did not flash each other or laugh with each other, or challenge each other. I still see him in my mind’s eye in Venice Beach, the sunny day I met him. He was in his mid 20’s. It was all there. He had a wonderful, loving family and we all feel great sadness for them today… MDRUDGE

We are all stunned and saddened by the news of Andrew Breitbart’s passing. Andrew was a warrior who stood on the side of what was right. He defended what was right. He defended the defenseless.

It is so sad to consider his four young children who have lost their dad. All our prayers are with his family now. May God comfort his wife and children.

Many of us will have life-long memories of our work or encounters with Andrew. May we draw on those to help forward the cause of fighting for what is right. For me, just one of those memories was in Pella, Iowa, last year after the premier of “The Undefeated.” Andrew held court in the restaurant at the local hotel talking about his favorite topic: how “culture is upstream of politics” and how conservatives must be unafraid to fight the leftwing media, cultural, and political establishments. The loss of his voice in this fight will be deeply felt, but thankfully his work lives on at his “Bigs,” and thank God for his inspiration and leadership.

God bless you, Andrew. Rest in peace, friend. We will continue the fight.

He’s the only person I know who operated without a safety net. He always knew things would turn out the way they were supposed to – so he didn’t worry about money or, i guess, his health, too much.

He was the spiritual leader of the modern conservative, libertarian cause. He was immersed in pop culture and wished to drag the right into the modern world – knowing this is how America speaks to the world. He was the heart of the matter. The fighter. Losing him is like a fiery planet going dark.

Eric Boehlert of Media Matters, with whom Breitbart sparred daily on Twitter, had a very classy response:

By contrast, Matthew Yglesias, formerly of Think Progress and now of Slate Magazine, responded with a fitting complete lack of class:

This is just heartbreaking. First of all for his wife and four children … my heart goes out to them.

And his parents, who were no doubt so proud of Andrew’s accomplishments after he was a mediocre student and slacker until he found his calling.

I knew his father, Gerry, as a customer at one of my dad’s stores. He was always polite and cheerful. He and his wife adopted Andrew. They are surely devastated.

I feel like I knew him as we grew up in the same neighborhood at about the same time.

Listening to the Dennis Miller radio show on the internet. Andrew often guest hosted Dennis’s show and was great friends with Dennis and his producer, Christian. One writer at Andrew’s sites called in and told Dennis that Andrew idolized him and truly loved him. Dennis replied that when he was out with Andrew, he felt like he was part of the Rat Pack.

It’s awful to see someone die so young. Especially someone so admirable. My deepest condolences to his family and friends.

I can only hope that I, and all the other Tea Party Reagan Conservatives, keep the Andrew Breitbart fight against injustice and media bias for the rest of our lives, as Andrew would have done with the same continued devoted passion.

I send my most sincerest condolences to the Breitbart Family, in this most tragic of hours. I pray for the Family.

I hate to think of the agony his elderly parents are suffering today. I can’t think of anything worse than losing your child. Andrew often thanked his parents for adopting him, and he was proud to have been raised a Jew (he was ethnically Irish, he found out about his birth parents).

Reading his book, I identified so much with him. I knew the places here on the westside of which he spoke. And, like him, I abandoned liberalism and the Democratic Party … while surrounded by leftists.

He really embodied the good things and the blessings of growing up here on the westside of LA. You don’t meet that many people here who are so family-oriented and so cheerful about life, yet fearless about being in the ideological minority. What a character!

This is why the left truly frightens me. I don’t wish harm or suffering on any of my political ideology opponents. They are opponents, not enemies. I don’t personally know anybody on the right who wishes people on the left harmed or dead.

Let that fearlessness he had in spades be doubled in his legacy to us.

2 Kings 2:9-11
“And it came to pass, when they were gone over, that Elijah said unto Elisha, Ask what I shall do for thee, before I be taken away from thee. And Elisha said, I pray thee, let a double portion of thy spirit be upon me.

And he said, Thou hast asked a hard thing: nevertheless, if thou see me when I am taken from thee, it shall be so unto thee; but if not, it shall not be so.

And it came to pass, as they still went on, and talked, that, behold, there appeared a chariot of fire, and horses of fire, and parted them both asunder; and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.”

Let Andrew Breitbart’s spirit of fearlessness be doubled inside all of us!

This should also be a wake-up call to all of us not to neglect our health. Our fight is long, hard and stressful: The Cause can not benefit from neglect of our health.

Take care of your tickers beginning today, at least in Andrew’s memory.

If you haven’t been at your doctor’s office in a long while, make an appointment today. Your health comes first. If you do have problems with your heart, do not neglect your cardiologist’s advice.

Eat the right things. Exercise. I’m sure he did.

Don’t neglect your prescribed medications. If you must, take supplements. Niacin is good for your heart and blood vessels, and so are fish and flax-seed oils.

Do yourself a favor and read a copy of The South Beach Diet Heart Health Revolution. I did, and it helped me learn a lot about my heart. It’s on paperback, so it won’t cost you much. And keep it handy in your home library.

Good advice. The low GI Diet Revolution is great too. I discovered it a few years ago. I have no health problems but I want to stay healthy. I eat right, use a treadmill, walk in the park w my dogs and bicycle. Limit my stress and embrace positivity. A sense of spiritual fulfillment is a must.

I loved — love — Andrew Breitbart. I remember seeing him on C-SPAN, — maybe 2010 — in New Hampshire, with the ubiquitous glass of ice water in his hand, at the podium, yelling about the MSM to the crowd, “These decadent bastards are going down!” And from that moment, Andrew Breitbart was one of my heroes.

What was the world like before Andrew? I have been looking forward to “the next thing” Andrew Breitbart would do, ever since I found out about him.

Andrew, Andrew. I’m so sorry! I imagine Heaven is great, but I wish you were still here with us. God Bless You, Andrew! God Bless and keep your family!

I can imagine it, too; but I can also imagine his extreme anguish to see the pain his family is enduring right now. I bet he’ll spend a great amount of time watching over them, and that’s as it should be.

Andrew, you are in the arms of angels and the Heavenly Father now. You left the world better than you found it and that is always a good thing. We are all praying for your wife, kids, family and friends. Rest assured that you played a vital role in getting this country to realize they were slowly losing their country. And we will continue to carry on the mission of restoring it.

I just gave my first donation ever to a blog site, to the Professor, it made me feel better. I recommend you who are reading this do so also. I changed a bit today, stronger, more articulate, ready and happy to engage in battle. As a conservative I always find the silver lining, may you also out there. And now to join a tea party…

Dealing with multiple losses here. Brietbart’s passing was a shock but not the only one for me. Before I found out about his death I learned of a fellow local cyclist killed as she rode along a roadway here. A road I ride myself all the time.

I’m in shock. Just got up and read the news here and a new day that’s dimmed considerably. What a loss his family has suffered! What a devastating blow to Conservative media. May Breitbart’s lessons to us be internalized and practiced. May God’s perpetual light shine upon him and may he rest in peace. May God comfort his family in their tie of sorrow.

Why don’t you start with the massive conspiricy to coverup obama’s forged birth documents and Selective Service Card…And that’s only the beginning of the massive fraud involved in obama’s entire life history….Not one story on Sheriff Joe’s News Conference yet on your blog ?!?!?…Are you even aware who Breitbart’s last interview was with ??? Yup, It was Sheriff Joe. That was the big news he was refering to that was going to happen on 3/1/2012….